How Are Hasidic Families So Big? A Father of 11 Explains

People guess it just happened, or that nobody in our world was ever taught anything, and both guesses miss nearly everything. I count eleven real reasons a Hasidic family grows this large, from faith and early marriage to new villages like Ateres fighting through courts and referendums for room to exist. I bring it home to my own kitchen, the shopping, the cooking, and the older kids raising the younger ones, down to one small timer that keeps our whole house running on Shabbos.